Pokemon Go’s Times Square Mewtwo is fetching $10,000 on eBay
Scopely gave an exclusive Mewtwo to about 2,000 people who attended Pokemon Go’s 10th anniversary event. Some listed it on eBay. Bids hit $10,100. A creator ran a sting on one seller, who posted a four-minute apology begging not to be banned. The scarcity here is a choice.
A Pokemon Go Mewtwo hit $10,100 on eBay after 45 bids.
That’s a database entry.
What’s selling
Pokemon Go celebrated its 10th anniversary by inviting nearly 2,000 players to Times Square to recreate the giant Mewtwo raid from the game’s original 2016 reveal trailer.
Attendees got an exclusive Mewtwo with a Times Square background and guaranteed perfect IVs. Nobody else can get one. Ever.
Then they started showing up on eBay.
One standard version was marked sold for $5,000 or best offer on July 14. A shiny version showed as sold for $4,000 the day before. eBay doesn’t publish the final number when a best offer gets accepted, so the actual take is unknown.
Creator Mike, better known as RaspberryWeiner, flagged a listing that reached $10,100 after 45 bids. Another hit $3,250 on 16 bids. It’s unclear whether either closed.
Selling accounts, currency, or items through third-party platforms violates Pokemon Go’s Player Guidelines. Has for years.
The sting
RaspberryWeiner says he tricked a seller into handing over their Pokemon Go friend code, which identified them as LegoMasterBuild, a player and former content creator.
“Tricked one of these Times Square Background Mewtwo sellers to send me their friend code,” he posted, with a laughing emoji. “EXPOSED!”
The apology
LegoMasterBuild pulled the listing and posted a four-minute video.
“I’m really sorry about the whole YouTube, eBay listing thing,” he said. “I didn’t realize it was against rules and regulations. Obviously, I wouldn’t have done that if I knew.”
He said he’d seen Pokemon Go listings while shopping eBay for other Pokemon products and assumed it was allowed. He admitted he “just wanted to see what would happen” after watching other attendees list theirs.
“I fell for a trap. I was tricked. I am dumb. I’ll admit it. And honestly, I’m really sorry.”
Then he continues: “Please don’t take it out on my account. I worked really hard over these 10 years.”
Both of these can be true
He broke a rule. It’s a real rule and it’s been there forever, and “I saw other people doing it” isn’t a defense.
He’s also a guy who went to a party, got a prize, listed it, and got hunted by a bigger creator running a sting for content, and is now publicly apologizing and asking a corporation not to delete ten years of his life.
RaspberryWeiner doesn’t work for Scopely. Nobody deputized him. He enforced a rule he has no authority over, and posted the receipts with an emoji.
The part nobody’s saying
Here’s what makes this different from every other scalping story.
A Pokemon card has a print run. Concert tickets have seats. The Lorcana drop that broke a Disney Store this week had physical boxes on physical shelves.
The Times Square Mewtwo has none of that. It costs nothing to make. Scopely could hand one to every player on earth tomorrow, at a marginal cost of approximately zero, and the only thing stopping it is a decision somebody made.
That $10,100 bid doesn’t exist because Mewtwo is rare. It exists because a company decided 2,000 people out of millions would get one, and let the rest watch.
That’s not scarcity. That’s a settings toggle.
What’s actually broken
The original backlash wasn’t about eBay. It was that a marquee reward went to invited creators and selected community members, and the resale prices just put a dollar figure on how much everyone else didn’t get.
Scopely and Niantic manufactured a chokepoint out of nothing, gave the keys to 2,000 people, and then the community started hunting each other over it.
The scalpers didn’t decide 2,000. Neither did LegoMasterBuild.
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Hat Tips:
Dexerto (July 17, 2026), the originating report, verified Pokemon Go’s 10th anniversary event inviting nearly 2,000 players to Times Square to recreate the Mewtwo raid from the game’s original reveal trailer, attendees receiving an exclusive Mewtwo featuring a Times Square background and guaranteed perfect IVs, the resulting backlash that creators and selected community members were favored over the wider player base, one standard Times Square Mewtwo marked sold for $5,000 or best offer on July 14 and a shiny version marked sold for $4,000 the previous day with final prices undisclosed under eBay’s best-offer system, content creator RaspberryWeiner sharing a listing that reached $10,100 after 45 bids and another that reached $3,250 after 16, that it remains unclear whether either transaction completed, and that selling Pokemon Go accounts, currency, or items through third-party platforms is prohibited by the game’s Player Guidelines
Dexerto and the creators’ public posts on X (July 15-16, 2026), verified RaspberryWeiner’s claim that he tricked a seller into sending their Pokemon Go friend code and his “EXPOSED!” post identifying the seller as player and former content creator LegoMasterBuild, LegoMasterBuild subsequently removing the listing and posting a four-minute apology in which he said “I didn’t realize it was against rules and regulations,” that he had seen Pokemon Go listings while browsing eBay for other Pokemon products, that he “just wanted to see what would happen” after seeing other attendees list theirs, that “I fell for a trap. I was tricked. I am dumb. I’ll admit it,” and his request that Scopely and Niantic not penalize his account after ten years of play